eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 2013-11-25 1 7 293 299 10.12691/ajme-1-7-28 AJME20131728 article Navrátil p1navratil@fai.utb.cz 1 Department of Process Control, University of Tomas Bata in Zlin, Faculty of Applied Informatics, Zlin, Czech Republic The article describes the design of adaptive controller for autonomous and non-autonomous control of nonlinear laboratory model hot-air tunnel using delta models. Synthesis of the controller is based on a matrix approach and polynomial theory. Autonomous control is solved using compensators. The controller was verified by simulation and the real-time experiment on nonlinear laboratory model hot-air tunnel. The recursive least squares method in delta domain is used in identification part of the proposed controller. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajme/1/7/28/ajme-1-7-28.pdf adaptive controldelta modelreal time controlmultivariable control